[✔️] July 29, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*July 29, 2022*/

/[  so that's how it works ] /
*Solar stocks jump as Schumer, Manchin announce climate spending deal*
JUL 28 2022
-- Solar stocks jumped Thursday after Senate Majority Leader Chuck 
Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., said they’ve reached a 
deal on climate spending.
-- The package earmarks a record $369 billion for climate and clean 
energy provisions.
-- “The entire clean energy industry just breathed an enormous sigh of 
relief,” said American Clean Power CEO Heather Zichal.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/28/solar-stocks-jump-as-schumer-manchin-announce-climate-spending-deal.html


/[ We are not making progress, we are just not failing as much as we 
used to  ] /
*Kevin Anderson methane is a transition fuel to 4ºC*
Jun 5, 2022  Visit: https://genn.cc
Kevin Anderson quotes:
“Senior academics are the new climate sceptics in my view!”

“Natural gas - Methane is a transition fuel… to 4ºC”

“We all paint a picture that fits with our world view but as we reassess 
that world view repeatedly, eventually it doesn’t sit with our world view.”

“It is disturbing and interesting in the law that we will protect things 
that are causing incredible damage and we will prosecute things that are 
trying to stop that incredible damage being caused.”

“Particularly academics, we are paid to be honest and direct about our 
research and we will sweeten the pill, hugely sweeten the pill in public 
and I think that is deeply arrogant, of often very decent people, fast 
we think the public can’t deal with it”
“The policymakers are simply not up to the job.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXEL4ZfDbdE



[ punctuation as a verb -  this is a great summary by 3 experts. ]
*A Sleeping Giant: Why Permafrost is a Climate Threat | The Agenda*
Jan 17, 2022  Permafrost covers a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere's 
land and stores twice as much organic carbon as Earth's atmosphere 
currently holds. What happens when it starts to thaw? The Agenda 
examines the climate threat of thawing permafrost, and why northern 
roads and communities find themselves on shaky ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic90sLO3c_g



/[ Paleo-climatology ] /
*What Triggered The Collapse of The Ancient Maya? A New Study Reads Like 
a Warning*
DAVID NIELD19 JULY 2022
Researchers have peered back through 800 years of history to conclude 
that Mayapan – the capital of culture and politics for the Maya people 
of the Yucatán Peninsula in the 13th and 14th century CE – may well have 
been undone by drought.
That drought would have led to civil conflict, which would, in turn, 
have brought about political collapse, according to the researchers.

People would then have retreated to smaller and safer settlements.

As well as giving us a useful insight into the history of this ancient 
people, the new study is a warning as well: about how shifts in climate 
can quickly put pressures on even the most well-established and 
prosperous civilizations.

"Multiple data sources indicate that civil conflict increased 
significantly, and generalized linear modeling correlates strife in the 
city with drought conditions between 1400 and 1450 CE," write the 
researchers in their published paper.

"We argue that prolonged drought escalated rival factional tensions, but 
subsequent adaptations reveal region-scale resiliency, ensuring that 
Maya political and economic structures endured until European contact in 
the early 16th century CE."

The team already had a lot of historical records to work with, covering 
population change, contemporary diets, and climate conditions.

These records were augmented with a new analysis of human remains for 
signs of traumatic injury (pointing to conflict).

Correlations emerged between increased rainfall and an increased 
population in the area, and between subsequent decreases in rainfall and 
increased conflict. Prolonged drought during 1400-1450 CE most likely 
led to the abandonment of Mayapan, the researchers say.
The lack of water would have affected agricultural practices and trade 
routes, putting strain on the people of Mayapan, the study suggests. As 
food got scarcer and the situation got more dangerous, people either 
died or dispersed.

In the final mass grave dug before the city was abandoned, the 
researchers report that many of the remains probably belonged to the 
family members of the Cocoms (the heads of state) – a bloody end brought 
on by competing factions and social unrest.

"Our findings support Mayapan's storied institutional collapse between 
1441 and 1461 CE, a consequence of civil conflict driven by political 
rivalry and ambition, which was embedded in the social memory of 
Yucatecan peoples whose testimonies entered the written record of the 
early Colonial Period," write the researchers.

Human responses to environmental pressures such as drought are clearly 
complex, varying by region and by era – there are so many factors to 
weigh up and balance when it comes to considering why a historical 
population acted in the way that it did.

The movement of people to other parts of the Yucatán Peninsula, 
including prosperous coastal towns and politically independent 
settlements, helped the Maya culture continue to thrive after the fall 
of Mayapan – and there was little evidence of any conflict between these 
regions before Spanish rule started.

That's testament to a "resilient system of human-environmental 
adaptations," the researchers say, but adaptations can only get you so 
far. These same regions, along with the rest of the world, are once 
again facing up to a climate crisis.

"Archaeological and historical records are well suited for examining 
past societal effects of climate crises over long-term cycles," write 
the researchers.

"The Maya region offers the breadth and depth of archaeological, 
historical, and climate records essential for studying correlations 
between social change and fluctuating climate conditions."

The research has been published in Nature Communications.
https://www.sciencealert.com/it-may-well-have-been-drought-that-led-to-the-collapse-of-the-maya-capital

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/[  Academic publication - Nature Communications  ]/
Published: 19 July 2022
*Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya*
Douglas J. Kennett, Marilyn Masson, …David A. Hodell Show authors
Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 3911 (2022) Cite this 
article
*Abstract*
The influence of climate change on civil conflict and societal 
instability in the premodern world is a subject of much debate, in part 
because of the limited temporal or disciplinary scope of case studies. 
We present a transdisciplinary case study that combines archeological, 
historical, and paleoclimate datasets to explore the dynamic, shifting 
relationships among climate change, civil conflict, and political 
collapse at Mayapan, the largest Postclassic Maya capital of the Yucatán 
Peninsula in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE. Multiple data 
sources indicate that civil conflict increased significantly and 
generalized linear modeling correlates strife in the city with drought 
conditions between 1400 and 1450 cal. CE. We argue that prolonged 
drought escalated rival factional tensions, but subsequent adaptations 
reveal regional-scale resiliency, ensuring that Maya political and 
economic structures endured until European contact in the early 
sixteenth century CE.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31522-x



/[The news archive - looking back 14 years ago ]/
/*July 29, 2008*/
July 29, 2008: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann covers "...the headlines breaking 
in the administration‘s 50 running scandals—Bushed.

      "Number three: Blood for oil-gate.  Remember when the people who
    said the Iraq war was designed to benefit the oil industry?  The
    Republicans responded by calling those people 'tinfoil hat'
    conspiracy theorists. And then the Republicans started saying we
    have to stay in Iraq because otherwise al Qaeda might get the oil
    and raise the price of gas.

    "Well, the pretext is officially at an end! Richard Perle, one of
    the architects of the invasion of Iraq is, according to the Murdoch
    Street Journal, trying to invest in an oil drilling deal with the
    Kurds of Iraq even though the Bush administration is on record
    opposing any oil deals with the Kurds until the Iraq government
    straightens out which group owns what oil fields in Iraq."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ro5f7x4cM


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